No admission in Guru Tegh Bahadur tech institute, rules Delhi HC

R Sedhuraman

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Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, August 2

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected the pleas of Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology and the Polytechnic Institute, Delhi, for letting them admit students for the 2016-17 session on a provisional basis.

Run by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management (DSGM) Committee, the two institutes with sanctioned intake capacities of 600 and 420 students respectively had come to the HC challenging the orders of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) placing them under “NO ADMISSION” category for 2016-17.

The two institutes had also sought a stay on the AICTE orders to let them go ahead with admissions.

Dismissing the plea, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said permitting them to go for provisional admissions would nullify the entire exercise of allocation of seats done through counselling over a period of two months in various institutes.

“It would have a cascading effect of unsettling the entire allocation of seats and would disrupt the academic schedule. Further, in case the petitioner does not succeed in the writ petition, the students admitted by interim orders, would have to be adjusted in different institutes in and around Delhi which may not be possible on account of unavailability of seats at that point of time and may also lead to litigation and harassment to students,” the HC said.

“It puts the career of students, who take provisional admission, at risk. The mere fact that students are willing to take such a risk, does not justify putting them at such a crossroad unless the peculiar facts of the case warrant such an interim order,” the judge explained.

Affiliated to the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, the GTB Institute of Technology conducts undergraduate engineering courses, while the GTB Polytechnic is affiliated to the Board of Technical Education, Delhi, and conducts diploma courses.

AICTE had put the admissions on hold as DSGM Committee had failed to fulfil its commitment to shift the polytechnic institute to Rajouri Garden before October 2015. Both the institute and polytechnic continued to operate from the premises of Guru Harkrishan Public School at Vasant Vihar.